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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor
Truman Capote · 45 pages
*A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.* Seven-year-old Buddy knows that the Christmas season has arrived when his cousin, Miss Sook Falk exclaims: "It's fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd, but enduring, friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one ol
The Spa Decameron
Fay Weldon · 336 pages
Ein paar Powerfrauen verbringen Weihnachten in einem eleganten Wellnessbad. Bei Kaviar und Champagner erzählen sie einander im Whirlpool ihre Lebensgeschichten: Eine Verschwörungstheoretikerin, eine transsexuelle Richterin, eine Expfarrersfrau, die von einem Poltergeist verfolgt wird, eine Psychoanalytikerin, die ihren Ehemann vergiftet hat, eine Manikürespezialistin, die von einem Scheich entführ
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
Lu Xun · 448 pages
Lu Xun is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, an is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. This new translation presents some of Lu Xun's best known short stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q' and 'Diary of a Madman'.
Roman Fever and Other Stories
Edith Wharton · 238 pages
Contains: Roman fever -- Xingu -- The other two -- Souls belated -- The angel at the grave -- The last asset -- After Holbein -- Autres temps.
The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor · 557 pages
There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, "The Geranium," in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collecti
Prague Tales
Jan Neruda, Michael Henry Heim · 454 pages
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde · 1,216 pages
The Haunted House
Charles Dickens · 128 pages
The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, take on the task of finding evidence of a supernatural presence in the house. When they reconvene at a Twelfth Night feast to review their findings, what will their stories reveal?
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle · 68 pages
Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat and duck turn into a first class case of felony and theft of a very precious Blue Carbuncle. A fun and well written tale. (Summary by phil chenevert )
The Complete Short Stories
Evelyn Waugh · 595 pages
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Gift Of The Magi And Other Stories
O. Henry · 255 pages
An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories reflecting various aspects of American life at the turn of the nineteenth century.
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol · 464 pages
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Agatha Christie · 240 pages
First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits...and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages
Retelling Hans Christian Andersen's classic story of a poor young girl trying to sell matches on a bitterly cold winter night. As she lights her matches one by one for warmth, each small flame reveals comforting visions that momentarily lift her from the harshness of her world. Through these brief illuminations, the story contrasts the cruelty of her reality with the beauty of her hopes and dreams
Memories of the Future
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok; a kind soul dreams of selling "everything you need for suicide"; an absentminded p
The Quiet Little Woman: Tilly's Christmas, Rosa's Tale : Three Enchanting Christmas Stories
Louisa May Alcott · 122 pages
The Quiet Little Woman, Tilly's Christmas, Rosa's Tale: Three Enchanting Stories by Louisa May Alcott
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
Sholem Aleichem · 330 pages
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Kate Chopin · 56 pages
From Louisiana's remote bayous to its gilded cities, five startling stories of awakening by one of fin-de-siécle America's most daring writers. --back cover